Town of Red Hook
Dutchess County, New York
Updated 4/13 /2001
Red Church, Tivoli
Facts and Figures from JW Poucher's "Old Gravestones of Dutchess County", 1924. See Dutchess County Cemetery Internments for Poucher's exact comments.
Beers = found on 1867 Beers Atlas
Terraserve
= found on topographical map on web
Cemetery | Hamlet | Earliest
Stone |
2nd
Stone |
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St. Paul Episcopal | Tivoli | Woods Road Tivoli, 845-757-3131.
From Tourism site below, "The grey stone Gothic Revival ST. PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, (L) (1.1), ca. 1868 was the parish of a number of Livingston related families. Hall/Ludlow/Livingston family (Eleanor Roosevelt's mother) members are interred in the graveyard." Photo 1 Photo 2 |
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Dutch Reformed
Red Church |
Tivoli | 201 | 1768 | 1779 | Rt 9G, just north of Tivoli.
From Tourism site below, a small wooden structure in the center of Red Church Cemetery, just beyond ST SYLVIA'S CEMETERY, was built by the Dutch Reformed Congregation on land donated by Phillip Livingston and Zacharias Hoffman ca. 1766. Church records date to 1756." Photo 1, Photo 2 In 1914, Poucher, "The Old red Church", Madalin. In the Second half of the eighteenth century a Reformed (Dutch) church stood near Hoffman’s Mills, about a mile northeast of Madalin. After 1787 when a church was built at Upper Red Hook the building near Hoffman’s Mills was known as the "Old Red Church". |
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St. Sylvias | Tivoli | See Red Church. Photo 1 | ||||
Sacred Heart | Barrytown | Station Hill Rd, between River road (CR103) and the Hudson River. Modern Cemetery | ||||
St. John's Episcopal | Barrytown | East side of River Road (CR103) just north of Barrytwon
Rd. 845-758-4450
Modern Cemetery |
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Tyler Ground | Barrytown | 1864 | 1865 | 5 | Not yet found,
in 1916, "Above the Barrytown station of the N. Y. C. & H. R. R., east of the railroad. CONDITION: When visited, the land had recently been purchased by the railroad company and the bodies removed to the Lutheran Cemetery, Red Hook." |
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Unnamed | Barrytown | 1790 | 1802 | 5 | Not yet found,
in 1916, "On land now owned by Mr. John J. Chapman (formerly >Known as the Donaldson place), south of the Barrytown station of the N. Y. C. & H. R. R. Abandoned." |
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St. Paul's Lutheran | Red Hook | 1804 | 1805 | 340 | 61 S. Broadway, 845-758-2379
In 1914, "CONDITION: Entirely neglected. About the year 1800 members of the German Reformed Church of Pink’s Corners,(town of Rhinebeck), four miles south of the village of Red Hook, built a new church at Red Hook. Before long the new congregation at Red Hook absorbed the remnants of the older one at Pink’s Corners and the latter passed out of existence as a separate unit. Some years later the German Reformed Church at Red Hook became affiliated with this Lutheran congregation and as a Lutheran Church the two have continued in one corporate existence. " |
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Dutch Reformed | Upper Red Hook | 1788 | 1796 | 279 | In 1914, "The first church building on the site of the present Reformed (Dutch) Church in Upper Red Hook was in existence in 1787 and stood until 1871, when a new church was built. The ground around the first building began to be used for burial purposes soon after the church was erected. | |
Feller Ground | Upper Red Hook | 1831 | 1836 | 17 | In 1914, "One mile east of Upper Red Hook, on the Farm of Dudley Curley. CONDITION: Good." |
See Dutchess County Toursim Site for description and maps of historical
sites in this area:
http://www.dutchesstourism.com/tour1.htm
John B. Dux [email protected]